Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Machine of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
What if someone had access to a mass-surveillance supercomputer that could predict not only acts of terror,…
Children Who Never Play
Students in my history of architecture course are amused to discover that the final exam offers a…
Theology Through Friendship
The recent death of Wolfhart Pannenberg prompted us to look through the long correspondence the German theologian…
A Theory for Tattoos
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark…
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
Dogs, Divorce, and Pre-pups
Like, we didn’t see this coming? Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples.…
Knowing the Trinity
Richard of St. Victor, a 12th-century Scottish theologian, is not exactly a household name in 21st-century Christian…
An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins
Dear Dr. Dawkins, Earlier this week, on Twitter, you drew attention to a troubling fact unknown to…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
Against Obsessive Sexuality
For the March issue of First Things, I wrote an essay called “Against Heterosexuality.” In brief, my…
The Evangelical Academy
We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee…
John Updike the Blogger
Every critic knows that John Updike was a gleeful child of his age, but did he rise…
The Scandal of Calvary
Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the…
The Down Syndrome Community’s Death Debate
Let’s try an experiment: Imagine you are a high school junior just starting to think about college.…
Will Doctors Be Forced to Kill?
The wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters over the modest Hobby Lobby decision has me…
